Danny's wisdom teeth have been causing a lot of pressure in his mouth, pressing his other teeth forward. Two different dentists recommended the teeth come out before they got impacted.
Kathy scheduled the surgery for the Monday before Thanksgiving to minimize the amount of school missed. It was a quick operation in the morning, and I stayed home to help assist Danny home in case he couldn't walk on his own.
We found Danny in the recovery room (a little hall) asleep on a gurney, hooked up to a heart monitor and gauze hanging out of his mouth. He was really out of it, but woke up and recognized us. He said he had been dreaming of playing soccer. He was in good spirits, and was able to carefully walk to the car with little assistance.
This photo was taken after Kathy got him all tucked away on the couch with an ice pack wrapped around his face. All-in-all, Danny found the whole experience much worse than he had anticipated. His advice: take your pain killers early and often.
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I talked to someone else who just got their wisdom teeth taken out. I said my nephew had just gotten his taken out but he's in high school like you're supposed to be when you get your wisdom teeth out. She said she wished she had gotten hers out when she was in high school. Even though the operation wasn't bad and she didn't use all of her pain medication, in older people the void left when the teeth are removed doesn't fill back up on its own so she has had to go back and get the voids filled in a little at a time. Someday they'll be able to fill the void with an MP3 player.
I swear I don't remember who I was talking to about that but it had to be pretty recent.
Posted December 10, 2003 9:36 AM